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The Company Road Podcast

Chris Hudson

88 episodes

3 weeks ago

Send us a text In this episode of The Company Road Podcast, Chris Hudson speaks with Con Frantzeskos, a visionary marketing and technology leader who has generated billions in revenue for giants like Emirates, Coca-Cola, and ANZ. Con is the former founder of digital strategy consultancy Penso and is currently building AI-native ventures like SalesChef.ai and Ansett.Travel. Buckle up friends, this is a hard-hitting conversation that contrasts the short-termism often seen in Australia with the ...

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Send us a text In this episode of The Company Road Podcast, Chris Hudson speaks with Con Frantzeskos, a visionary marketing and technology leader who has generated billions in revenue for giants like Emirates, Coca-Cola, and ANZ. Con is the former founder of digital strategy consultancy Penso and is currently building AI-native ventures like SalesChef.ai and Ansett.Travel. Buckle up friends, this is a hard-hitting conversation that contrasts the short-termism often seen in Australia with the ...

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Self-Improvement

Episodes (20/88)

The Company Road Podcast

E87 Con Frantzeskos: The Unashamed Capitalist: Building AI Ventures and Billions in Revenue

Send us a text In this episode of The Company Road Podcast, Chris Hudson speaks with Con Frantzeskos, a visionary marketing and technology leader who has generated billions in revenue for giants like Emirates, Coca-Cola, and ANZ. Con is the former founder of digital strategy consultancy Penso and is currently building AI-native ventures like SalesChef.ai and Ansett.Travel. Buckle up friends, this is a hard-hitting conversation that contrasts the short-termism often seen in Australia with the ...

3 weeks ago

56 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E86 Jet Swain on Why the Next Great Economy is Built on Affection

Send us a text In this episode of The Company Road Podcast, Chris Hudson welcomes Jet Swain, design guru and founder of The Affection Economy, a transformative framework for how we lead, work, and measure success. Jet argues that the next great economy isn't built on logic alone, but on affection, defined as people, purpose, and values. Drawing on an incredible 35-year career spanning advertising, architecture, systems design, and policy, Jet has seen systems that have lost their soul and th...

4 weeks ago

1 hour 2 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E85 James Fitzjohn: Swapping Comfy Corporate for Consultancy Hustle

Send us a text In this episode of The Company Road Podcast, Chris Hudson speaks with James Fitzjohn, founder and director of Brew Consulting. James is a certified "agency nomad," having spent over 20 years with advertising heavyweights like Ogilvy, AKQA, and DDB across London, Dubai, Melbourne, and Perth. James shares the epiphany that led him to ditch the corporate life for the independent hustle. He realised that brilliant brands were happily spending fortunes on "shiny new websites" and "t...

1 month ago

35 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E84 Dane Maddams: Wading through the 'Messy Middle' of Culture and Product

Send us a text In this episode of The Company Road Podcast, Chris Hudson dives into the heart of organisational success with Dane Maddams, Director of Product at Culture Amp and Amplitude Product 50 leader. Dane specialises in the "messy middle": the ambiguous, unspoken tensions, and trust gaps that quietly hold firms back. Drawing on a fascinatingly diverse background from Toyota to the world of gaming, Dane shares his unique perspective on making high performance more human, actionable, and...

2 months ago

44 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E83 Amy Grilli: From Viral Post to Global Movement: Bring on the 5-hour Workday!

Send us a text In this episode of The Company Road Podcast, Chris Hudson and Amy Grilli, co-founder of the Five Hour Club, dive deep into why the traditional 9-to-5 workday is fundamentally broken for parents and families. Amy shares the incredible personal story behind her viral LinkedIn post that reached 14 million people and proved this wasn't just a personal struggle, but a global crisis for working parents. The conversation explores the radical, effective solution: the Five Hour Workday....

3 months ago

45 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E82 Empathy begins Within: Reconciling ‘otherness’ with Dr. Jackie King

Send us a text In this episode of the Company Road podcast, Chris Hudson and Dr. Jackie King delve into the transformative concept of empathy, emphasizing the importance of self-empathy as a foundational step. Dr. King shares her personal journey, highlighting how her experiences shaped her understanding of otherness and the necessity of self-discovery in leadership. The conversation explores the application of design thinking to personal growth, the complexities of identity, and ...

3 months ago

42 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E81 Workplace bullies: Surviving toxic workplaces

Send us a text "There's two parts of your career. There's the part that you do and then there's the part that people see you do. And the second one is equally important to the first one." - In this episode, you’ll hear about: Making your work visible beyond just doing it wellBuilding influence through strategic relationships and social capitalLeveraging introvert strengths in leadership and facilitation rolesTesting if difficult colleagues are misaligned or genuinely toxicHandling workp...

3 months ago

43 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E80 Breaking the broken model: How to fix corporate learning and development

Send us a text "Actually 90% of the change you're trying to create comes through systemic changes to the environment rather than training." - Charlie Kneen Charlie Kneen is the founder of Solvd Together, a learning and development transformation consultancy that reimagines how global brands approach their people strategy. Formerly the L&D lead at BP in the UK, Charlie brings together expertise in marketing, coaching, leadership, and human-centred design. If you're tired of engagement surv...

4 months ago

44 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E79 Making change doable: The psychology and truths behind organisational transformation

Send us a text "Communicate to involve, not to tell, so that you can make the change stick." - Lana North Lana North is a change communication specialist and founder of the Communication Exchange who has spent two decades managing complex transformation programmes across industries from banking to logistics. After working through major changes including the aftermath of the European financial crisis, she now helps leaders navigate organisational transformation with clarity and humanity. ...

5 months ago

51 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E78 Ask better, lead smarter: Applying the consultant’s mindset inside your company

Send us a text "I think there are three things that are really valued in organizations from consultants. The first is consultants come without a legacy bias. So the challenges, the roadblocks, the cultural norms within an organization, consultants are able to sidestep those. So are able to kind of come in and observe those with a bit of a neutral gaze." - Steph Foxworthy Steph Foxworthy brings over 25 years of experience spanning customer experience, digital strategy, product innovation, sale...

5 months ago

48 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E77: From stuck to start: Moving beyond “we’ve always done it this way”

Send us a text “The longer the tenure, the more things become, you know, this is the way we've always done it. And so an entrepreneur is someone that can go in and see that pretty quickly. What are the bits that are stale? Where are the potentials and opportunities for improvement?” - Dave Gregurke In this episode, you’ll hear about: Aligning stakeholders with different prioritiesBalancing innovation with security in high-risk settingsWorking around resistance to changeThe importance of custo...

6 months ago

46 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E76 Milk the cow vs. Make the future: Your company’s commercial dilemma

Send us a text “I realised, I'm just an arrogant tw@t that believes I know how to do things, but actually other people know how to do things as well, maybe even much better than I do. And that many solutions are based on context, on history, on future, on vision, on motivation, on setups, on ability, on all kinds of things. So there's no one solution to a problem. There are many, many solutions to a problem.” Andreas Moellmann In this episode, you’ll hear about: How different cultures a...

6 months ago

49 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E75 Culture isn’t yoga: What actually drives performance

Send us a text “I believe that everyone is a CEO of culture. Every interaction is either a deposit or withdrawal from culture. You can have the most amazing culture within the team, and you can put someone in there that doesn't do the right thing and doesn't treat people in the right way. And if they're in a leadership position, the shadow they leave is even bigger.” — Beth Hall In this episode, you’ll hear about: Why culture isn’t something you can “initiative” your way out ofThe impact of i...

7 months ago

54 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E74 Going Guerrilla with AI: Real talk on adoption for teams

Send us a text "People are using AI Tools whether they're being allowed to or not. More and more of large organisations’ ways of working are starting to operate out of these things organically." Ben Le Ralph Listen to the full episode for an in-depth look at how AI is changing the way teams work and why strategy may soon become the next big challenge in the age of AI. In this episode, you’ll hear about: What Ben means by the “strategy execution gap”Why AI adoption is messy, fragmented, and ve...

7 months ago

53 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E73 Tiny ideas, huge leaps: leading your organisation through uncertainty

Send us a text “It’s not that you are not creative, you just haven’t worked a little more on developing your capacity. We can all be creative.” Dr. Maria Camacho Dr. Maria Camacho is a global leader in design thinking and innovation. With over 30 years of experience across academia, consulting, and industry, she has helped shape the way organisations think about creativity and collaboration. In this episode, Maria talks about how design thinking can help people and companies navigate un...

8 months ago

51 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E72 Inside your inner critic: overcoming self-doubt for success

Send us a text "You cannot control how anyone's going to respond to what comes out of your mouth. I think you just have to do it with an open heart and with positive intent and then just let it land. " – Fiona Walsh Fiona Walsh specialises in guiding people through this kind of deep self-inquiry. She is a mindset coach, change adviser, and host of the Limitless: Unlocking Your True Potential Podcast. With over 20 years of experience, Fiona has helped business leaders and entrepreneurs shift t...

9 months ago

48 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E71 Silent Revolutionaries: Firing up corporate innovation without getting fired

Send us a text "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is in that little extra. It's about focusing in on the right things and fixing them...it's more about solutioning in that space." – Dr. Munib Karavdic Dr. Munib Karavdic, an award-winning innovation executive, intrapreneur, and CEO of Wave Design. In this episode, Munib shares his journey from pursuing a PhD in E-Commerce in Australia to leading corporate innovation and eventually founding Wave Design. He discusses key tu...

9 months ago

55 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E70 The Draw of Change: Balancing creativity, confidence and humility

Send us a text "I would go so far as to say it went past an adaption and into a reinvention almost. New York is that city that it's a little bit of a trope, but everyone goes there to reinvent themselves in a way... That’s petrifying, but also incredibly freeing, because you can start to rebuild the person that you really want to be at that stage in your life." – Alanna Lynch In this episode, you’ll hear about: Alanna’s journey from Sydney to New York and back to AustraliaThe challenges...

10 months ago

43 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E69 Rewriting the rules: What rebels can teach organisations

Send us a text Show Notes "I think one of the main skills that an intrapreneur needs is diplomacy. You need to be able to manage upwards, downwards, sideways. You need to get people's buy-in, engage them in your ideas rather than ramming them down their throats." - Kate Toon Kate Toon, an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and digital marketing expert, joins us for an insightful discussion. From her humble backyard shed, Kate has built a thriving business universe, empowering thousands throu...

10 months ago

37 minutes

The Company Road Podcast

E68 The Unique You: Decoding your Creative DNA with Lisa Johnson

Send us a text “The Elements Kit is about 'Who am I?' and 'What next?'. What choices can I make for a really fulfilled and aligned life? Bringing all those components into balance.” - Lisa Johnson Lisa Johnson, an experienced designer with expertise spanning interior design to service design, joins us to share her journey and her innovative creation, The Elements Kit. With a foundation in systems thinking and human-centred design, Lisa has built a toolkit that aligns personal talents, values,...

11 months ago

40 minutes